shot Oct 30, 2004, 3:40 mins The festivities for Woodstock School’s 150th Anniversary included a recital on sitar by Sanjeeb Sircar in the school library. This is only about a quarter of the full piece. sitar: Sanjeeb Sircar – tabla: Bharat Shinde My classmate Chris was playing air tabla; I think he studied tabla in… Continue reading Sitar and Tabla
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Woodstock 150th Celebration: Campfire
Oct 29, 2004 – evening and well into the night Next on the agenda was an outdoor dinner and campfire at the campground just above Hanifl Center, organized by Tenzing and Tsering, with their sons helping out. Gautam is a very talented guitarist. You might also like: No related posts.
Woodstock School History Resources
I’ve been doing lots of reading for the Woodstock history project, including some books that may be interesting even to non-Woodstockers. I was excited to finally lay hands on the journal of Fanny Parkes, an Englishwoman who lived in India from the 1820s to 40s. She was the first person to write about Mussoorie and… Continue reading Woodstock School History Resources
Recycling: A New Italian Tradition
Growing up in Bangladesh and India, I observed that every scrap of paper, or anything else potentially useful, was re-used. Peanuts bought from a roadside stand were given to me in a little bag, carefully handmade from a page of a Singapore telephone directory. At school, the kabadi-wallahs (second-hand men) would come around collecting paper, cloth, and… Continue reading Recycling: A New Italian Tradition
High (School) Society
In America, high school is hell. The movie The Breakfast Club (1985) used sharply-delineated characters to illustrate the social divisions that exist in many/most schools: the jock, the prom princess, the stoner, the brain, the geek. It’s a caste system, where positions are won by looks, money, or athletic ability, and the hierarchy is maintained… Continue reading High (School) Society